To ask the Scottish Executive what progress it has made in developing a legacy plan setting out what Scotland and the people of Scotland should expect as a legacy from the Commonwealth Games in...

To ask the Scottish Executive what the position is of each bus operator in relation to compliance with statutory provisions for wheelchair users.

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it plans to reinstate restrictions on the movement of honeybees in and into Scotland.

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it plans to reinstate notifiable disease status to varroa mite infestation in bee populations.

To ask the Scottish Executive whether reported cases of bird poisoning or persecution are proportionately greater in the national forest estate or in privately-owned or managed forests.

To ask the Scottish Executive, in the absence of Creative Scotland, who is playing a leadership role in bringing together broadcasters, production companies, economic development bodies, skills...

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it plans to lease 25% of the publicly-owned forest estate to private foreign timberland investment companies and, if so, whether it has consulted the 21,046...

To ask the Scottish Executive what action it is taking to address the number of people breaching community service orders.

To ask the Scottish Executive what assessment it has made of the importance of the insurance sector to the Scottish economy.

To ask the Scottish Executive who, other than civil servants, is involved in considering applications to the Climate Challenge Fund and what the locus or role is of each person involved.

To ask the Scottish Executive what overseas official visits the First Minister plans to make in the next six months.

To ask the Scottish Executive how many times since he took office the First Minister has met Sandi Thom.

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has had discussions with the football authorities and individual clubs about the way in which Remembrance Day is marked, in the light of any implications...

To ask the Scottish Executive how many redundancies it would expect as a result of the proposals for Forestry Commission land outlined in its consultation on forestry provisions in the Scottish...

To ask the Scottish Executive what gross value added it estimates to be associated with timber in the public forest estate.

To ask the Scottish Executive whether the biodiversity duty under the Nature Conservation (Scotland) Act 2004 would apply to land in the public forest estate that was leased to private interests.

To ask the Scottish Executive whether land in the public forest estate that had been leased to private interests would be eligible for grant payments under the Scotland Rural Development Programme.

To ask the Scottish Executive what powers Forestry Commission Scotland has to sell or otherwise dispose of land that it owns.

To ask the Scottish Executive whether Forestry Commission Scotland has powers to reinvest the proceeds of sales of land in new land purchases.

To ask the Scottish Executive whether Forestry Commission Scotland has powers to lease land from others.

To ask the Scottish Executive whether Forestry Commission Scotland has powers to lease land in its ownership to others.

To ask the Scottish Executive whether the land owned by Forestry Commission Scotland is held and owned on behalf of Scottish ministers.

To ask the Scottish Executive whether Scottish ministers have powers to own land.

To ask the Scottish Executive what arrangements Forestry Commission Scotland has entered into with community organisations to manage forest land.

To ask the Scottish Executive under what powers Forestry Commission Scotland has entered into arrangements with community groups on leasing or otherwise arranging the management of part of the...

To ask the Scottish Executive whether Scottish ministers have powers to transfer assets owned by the Forestry Commission Scotland to others.

To ask the Scottish Executive whether Forestry Commission Scotland has powers to offer grant assistance to voluntary organisations.

To ask the Scottish Executive whether the use of funds raised by Forestry Commission Scotland from the sale or lease of land is regulated.

To ask the Scottish Executive whether the use of funds raised by Forestry Commission Scotland from the sale or lease of land has to be agreed by Scottish ministers.

To ask the Scottish Executive whether its policy is that the proceeds of the sale of land or its leasing by Forestry Commission Scotland form part of the forward financial planning of the...

To ask the Scottish Executive whether, within its powers, it can bind future Scottish Governments as to the treatment and use of funds raised through the sale or lease of land owned by Forestry...

To ask the Scottish Executive whether Scottish ministers are in any way constrained by regulation as to how they apply funds raised by the sale or lease of assets owned by Forestry Commission...

To ask the Scottish Executive how receipts from the sale or lease of land owned by Forestry Commission Scotland are treated in public accounting terms.

To ask the Scottish Executive whether income from the lease of land owned by Forestry Commission Scotland is required to be treated as capital.

To ask the Scottish Executive what spending authority or powers will be generated by it through the lease of Forestry Commission Scotland land and whether any such spending authority or powers...

To ask the Scottish Executive whether the lease of land owned by Forestry Commission Scotland can form an annual revenue stream for it for each year of the lease period, payable in each said year.

To ask the Scottish Executive whether the lease of land owned by Forestry Commission Scotland can take the form a single payment at the commencement of the lease to cover the entire lease period.

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it is obliged to apply receipts from the sale or lease of land owned by Forestry Commission Scotland to forestry expenditure.

To ask the Scottish Executive by how much it plans to increase expenditure on climate change, as envisaged in the consultation on the future of the national forest estate.

To ask the Scottish Executive whether the entering of joint ventures envisaged in the document Climate Change and the National Forest Estate - Consultation on forestry provisions in the Scottish...

To ask the Scottish Executive what rights currently held by Forestry Commission Scotland it envisages will transfer to any lease holders under the plans postulated in the document Climate Change...

To ask the Scottish Executive whether, under the powers included in the document Climate Change and the National Forest Estate - Consultation on forestry provisions in the Scottish Climate Change...

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it proposes to use the UK Woodland Assurance Standard or the UK Forestry Standard in any leasing arrangements for the national forest estate.

To ask the Scottish Executive whether Scottish ministers balance commercial interests with silvicultural, recreational and environmental interests in determining its policies on Forestry...

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it considers that private firms investing in forestry in Scotland are bound to put the interests of their shareholders first.

To ask the Scottish Executive what public benefits it considers are delivered by Forestry Commission Scotland.

To ask the Scottish Executive how it quantifies the public benefits delivered by Forestry Commission Scotland.

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has powers to direct Forestry Commission Scotland.

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has powers to direct private forestry owners or interests in Scotland.

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it considers that it is able to anticipate all environmental and other events that may have implications for the management of Scotland’s forests for...

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it can require private contractors to employ forestry staff transferred to them under transfer of undertakings (protection of employment) (TUPE) regulations...

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it can require private forestry interests to employ harvesting staff directly for forest management purposes where such private forest interests do not...

To ask the Scottish Executive what assessment it has made of the cost implications for the remaining Forestry Commission estate of the lease and transfer of felling rights to private interests...

To ask the Scottish Executive what assessment it has made of the impact of leasing a proportion of the national forest estate on the training of apprentices in forestry and whether it will...

To ask the Scottish Executive whether there is any cross subsidy within Forestry Commission Scotland from commercial income to delivering environmental benefits.

To ask the Scottish Executive whether any assessment has been made of the impact on any cross subsidy within Forestry Commission Scotland from its commercial income to delivering greater...

To ask the Scottish Executive what assessment it has made of the impact of leasing parts of the national forest estate on the restoration of native woodlands and whether it will publish any such...

To ask the Scottish Executive what discussions it has had with US company the Timberland Fund and when.

To ask the Scottish Executive to whom it plans to lease 25% of the publicly-owned forest estate to if it does not plan to lease it to private foreign timberland investment companies.

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has been approached by or has had discussions with private foreign timberland investment companies wishing to buy or lease the most commercially-viable...

To ask the Scottish Executive what plans it has to promote community woodlands.

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it provides funding for sectarianism-awareness projects or campaigns in further and higher educational establishments.

To ask the Scottish Executive whether other seed lots from the same sources and countries of origin as the GM-contaminated oilseed rape seeds found in National List and variety trials in...

To ask the Scottish Executive when the Chief Scientist Office funded study into ethnic variation in health, health service utilisation and health outcomes in Scotland will be completed.

To ask the Scottish Executive what steps it is taking to ensure that any case where Clostridium difficile is a direct or contributory factor is linked to the hospital, ward and bed in which the...

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it intends the Homecoming Scotland 2009 advertisement for television and cinema to be broadcast outside Scotland and, if so, in what countries.

To ask the Scottish Executive how much it cost to produce the Homecoming Scotland 2009 advertisement for television and cinema, broken down by funding source.

To ask the Scottish Executive how often sections (a) 17 and (b) 18 of the Housing (Scotland) Act 2001 have been used to date, broken down by local authority.

To ask the Scottish Executive on what grounds Annan District Court is considered to be unsuitable for summary criminal court business, as stated in the Scottish Court Service’s consultation...

To ask the Scottish Executive how the figure of £0.8 million quoted in the Scottish Court Service’s consultation document Delivering a Unified Courts Administration in the Sheriffdom...

To ask the Scottish Executive what provision there is in the single outcome agreement for the delivery of community education facilities in Edinburgh.

To ask the Scottish Executive what steps it is taking to implement cognitive psychotherapy in the NHS.

To ask the Scottish Executive what advice was given to ministers regarding their attendance at or participation in a meeting held at the SNP party conference with representatives from Aviemore...

To ask the Scottish Executive when it will provide a substantive answer to question S3W-16851, which received a holding reply on 4 November 2008.

To ask the Scottish Executive when it will provide a substantive answer to question S3W-16850, which received a holding reply on 4 November 2008.

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-10965 by Michael Russell on 11 April 2008, whether the correspondence and enclosures from Mr Macdonald that "were not shown to...

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-9480 by Michael Russell on 28 February 2008, which special advisers telephoned the communications officer for Mr...

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-18386 by Stewart Maxwell on 9 December 2008, whether during its discussions with COSLA it will propose that the £7.5...

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it considers that income to it and its agencies and commissions from any source should be hypothecated to a specific purpose for any specific period of...

To ask the Scottish Executive how much it would cost to double track the railway line between Aberdeen and Inverness.

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to its news release issued on 9 September 2008 on renewable energy targets, which highlighted "a total private investment of over £800 million in green...

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the First Minister’s statement on 24 September 2008 that "£1 billion of new private sector investment in the renewable energy sector" had...

To ask the Scottish Executive which daily and weekly newspapers and magazines are purchased regularly for ministers.

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it considers that funding for specific purposes should be ring-fenced over prolonged periods of years.

To ask the Scottish Executive whether applications for grants from the £150,000 awarded to Sense over Sectarianism for 2009-10 can be made by projects from all local authority areas.

To ask the Scottish Executive how many people are employed on a full-time basis with anti-sectarianism organisations, broken down by organisation.

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the report in The Herald on 10 December 2008, whether the award of £412,731 to Sense over Sectarianism includes money already awarded for 2008-09.

To ask the Scottish Executive how much financial support Sense over Sectarianism receives from its partner organisations.

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-18456 by Kenny MacAskill on 10 December 2008, whether the proposed HM Prison Grampian will have a comparable role to that of...

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-18456 by Kenny MacAskill on 10 December 2008, whether the proposed HM Prison Grampian will have a comparable role to that of...

To ask the Scottish Executive what action it is taking to support vital infrastructure projects in the far north.